Of course there is a deep divide! One side wants to stop illegal immigration and the other side wants to reward it. Hard to conceive of any policies that would do both.

If lowering tax's for business is 'trickle down' economics why isn't attempting to stimulate the economy by giving tax money already collected back to business 'trickle down' economics?

If the left believes that government spending stimulates the economy, why do they blame our current poor economy on the government spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

It is really quite simple. Never grant the government power or authorization for tactics you would not like it to have when the opposition is in power. The extent to which you believe in your political ideology does not add merit to it. That is how all tyrannies justify themselves. They all believed they were right and everyone else was wrong. That does not distinguish you from anybody or your ideas from anyone else's. It just makes you ordinary tyrants.

Having failed to provide any cognitive and believable defenses against the scandals facing the Obama Administration the latest tactics is to tell the people that they don't really care about this stuff.

Dr. Sowell doesn't point out that the administration and faculty of colleges today are the students who protested in the 1960's. To work contrary to that now would destroy all of the self-righteous esteem in which they hold themselves.

Yep, and don't forget the hypocrisy of these MLK exploiters saying that 'character doesn't matter'.

I know this would make Bob Beckel roll his eyes in disdain but once again imagine what would be said if this had happened while Bush was President.

They should do do as a purely pragmatic concession to reality. The Republicans will be accused of politicizing whether they do it or not

They never got tired of making excuses for Bill Clinton. No matter how much they lower the bar these snakes will find a way to slither underneath it.